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A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious (quarrelsome) woman are alike;
A continual dripping on a day of violent showers and a contentious woman are alike;
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
An endless dripping on a rainy day and a nagging wife are alike;
The constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
A leak that keeps dripping on a rainy day and the nagging of a wife are the same —
The steady dripping of rain and the nagging of a wife are one and the same.
A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:
Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.
A complaining wife is like water that never stops dripping on a rainy day.
A wife who is always arguing with you is as bad as rain that never stops falling.
Constantly dripping water on a rainy day and a nagging wife are alike.
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
A ·quarreling [contentious] wife is as bothersome as a continual dripping on a rainy day.
A continual dropping in the day of rain, and a contentious woman are alike.
Constantly dripping water on a rainy day is like a quarreling woman.
A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip on a rainy day.
An endless dripping on a rainy day and a nagging wife are alike.
A quarreling wife is as bothersome as a continual dripping on a rainy day.
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike.
¶ A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike;
Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike.
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a cranky woman are much alike!
A nagging spouse is like the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet; You can’t turn it off, and you can’t get away from it.
A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
Constantly dripping water on a rainy day is like a quarreling woman.
For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome wife;
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike;
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike;
A constant dripping on a rainy day is much like a nagging wife;
A quarreling wife is as bothersome as a continual dripping on a rainy day.
A continual dripping on a rainy day— a contentious wife makes herself like that.
A nagging wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm.
A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;
A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;
A continual dripping on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike;
An arguing woman is like water falling drop by drop on a day it is raining.
A quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping on a rainy day.
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;
A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a quarrelsome isha are alike;
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
Continual dripping on a day of steady rain and a contentious wife are alike—
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a wife’s bickering are very much alike:
A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
Roofs dropping in the day of cold, and a woman full of chiding, be likened together. (Roofs dripping rain on a cold day, and a woman full of arguments, or of bickering, be quite similar.)
A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,
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